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SP bookie; SP bookmaker
noun
an illegal off-course bookmaker who offers starting price odds AUSTRALIA, 1938- You’re right there, of course, sergeant, but an S.P. bookie isn’t a criminal, not in the ordinary man’s way of thinking, now is he? — Vince Kelly, The Bogeyman, p. 99, 1956
- The man in the flat underneath happened to be one of the biggest S.P. bookmakers in Sydney! — George Blaikie, Remember Smith’s Weekly?, p. 94, 1966
- A husband had just said goodbye to his wife and as he was walking out the front gate, he met the SP bookie. — Frank Hardy and Athol George Mulley, The Needy and the Greedy, p. 57, 1975
- Jingling the coins in his pocket the young punter hurries down to the local pub a few minutes before race time to place his bet with the local SP bookie. — Clive Galea, Slipper!, p. 6, 1988
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